In Session is a blues album by Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded live for television on December 6, 1983, at CHCH-TV studios in Hamilton, Ontario, when Vaughan was 29 and King was 60. It was released as an album on August 17, 1999, and re-released with a supplemental video recording on DVD on September 28, 2010. It has also been released on CD and SACD.
It was the first of two collaborations captured for television, the second being as invited guests on a show led by B.B. King in 1987. It was recorded for one of a series of live television sessions recording the performances of various artists. The show was called In Session. The album includes a few short segments of the banter by King and Vaughan between songs.
Initially, King was not going to do the show as he did not know who Vaughan was. He did not realize that Vaughan was actually 'little Stevie', the 'skinny kid' that he let sit in when King played in Texas. King talks about this on one of the conversation tracks. When he realized who Vaughan was, he agreed to play.[4]
The album's material is mostly King's concert line up, with one Vaughan cut, "Pride and Joy" on the audio CD (the DVD also features Vaughan's "Texas Flood"). King is 'driving' the session, but he features Vaughan's guitar extensively on most of the songs.[5] According to the introductory credits on the DVD, a number of the tunes are included there for the first time, having been omitted from the original TV broadcast for reasons of time.
In Session Review
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
[-]Recorded in December 1983, In Session captures an in-concert jam between Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, the latter of whom had become the hot blues guitarist of the year thanks to his debut Texas Flood, as well as his work on David Bowie's hit Let's Dance. Vaughan may have been the new news, but King was not suffering, either. He had a world-class supporting band and was playing as well as he ever had. In other words, the stage was set for a fiery, exciting concert and that's exactly what they delivered. Vaughan was clearly influenced by King -- there are King licks all over his first two recorded efforts, and it was an influence that stayed with him to the end -- and he was unafraid to go toe-to-toe with his idol. King must have been impressed, since In Session never devolves into a mere cutting contest. Instead, each musicians spurs the other to greater heights. For aficionados of either guitarist, that means the album isn't just worth a listen -- it means that it's a record that sounds as exciting on each subsequent listen as does the first time through.
Based on the conversations, key changes and tempo count-offs, the tracks for the full performance were in the following order:
- [Introduction]
- "Born Under a Bad Sign"
- "Texas Flood"
- "Call It Stormy Monday"
- "Old Times" [talk] [version from CD]
- "Pride and Joy"
- "Ask Me No Questions"
- "Pep Talk" [talk]
- "Blues at Sunrise"
- "Turn It Over" [talk]
- "Overall Junction"
- "Match Box Blues"
- "Who Is Stevie?" [talk]
- "Don't Lie to Me"
- "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town"
- [Outtro]
- Albert King - electric guitar, vocals
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - electric guitar, vocals on "Pride and Joy"
- Tony Llorens - piano, organ
- Gus Thornton - bass
- Michael Llorens - drums
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